First, the majority of published papers found small but statistically significant disemployment effects from modest minimum wage increases, while most of the rest of the studies found neither positive nor negative employment effects.

Neumark and Wascher (2007) review over 90 studies published since the iconoclastic Card and Krueger (1994, 1995) studies of the mid-1990s and conclude that there is overwhelming evidence that the least-skilled workers experience the strongest disemployment effects from minimum wage increases (see, for example, Neumark and Wascher 1992; Williams 1993; Deere, Murphy, and Welch 1995; Currie and Fallick 1996; Abowd et al.

There are data, however, suggesting that, to the extent that the ADA has had disemployment effects, those effects have clustered in the states for which the statute's accommodation requirement was new.

Many claim that minimum wage hikes, for example, reduce employment among low-skilled individuals, although recent empirical research shows there is little or no disemployment effect from raising the minimum wage.

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